The dreaminess is underpinned by echoing violin, a guitar whose player has clearly placed offerings at the icon of Lindsey Buckingham, and an intuitive but gritty rhythm section.

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He wrote with dreaminess and rigour, sentimentality and wit.

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The movie has a slightly threadbare but eager pleasantness about it a devotion to youth, dreaminess, ambition, and freedom, which means, in practice, endless hanging out, drinking, doping, talking passionately but aimlessly, and falling in and out of bed.

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But she snaps out of her dreaminess to become an impulsive young woman bent on revenge, hacking at her hair with her sword in the hope that she will be taken more seriously by the men whose world she has chosen to share.

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